Al-Farabi (/ˌælfəˈrɑːbi/; Arabic: ابو نصر محمد بن محمد الفارابي‎‎ Abū Naṣr Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad Al Fārābī; for other recorded variants of his name see below), known in the West as Alpharabius (c. 872 in Fārāb – between 14 December, 950 and 12 January, 951 in Damascus), was a renowned philosopher and jurist who wrote in the fields of political philosophy, metaphysics, ethics and logic. He was also a scientist, cosmologist, mathematician and music scholar.

Al-Farabi (/ˌælfəˈrɑːbi/; Arabic: ابو نصر محمد بن محمد الفارابي‎‎ Abū Naṣr Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad Al Fārābī; for other recorded variants of his name see below), known in the West as Alpharabius (c. 872 in Fārāb – between 14 December, 950 and 12 January, 951 in Damascus), was a renowned philosopher and jurist who wrote in the fields of political philosophy, metaphysics, ethics and logic. He was also a scientist, cosmologist, mathematician and music scholar.